FIRST HAIRCUT!

Parker had his very first haircut today. I wanted to wait until his first birthday but he was turning into a sweat ball and his scraggly hairline was getting crazy. He also prefers to have a mohawk and it was borderline X-treme with his long hair so we decided to just cut it. We trimmed it up, shortened it and made him look exceptionally cuter than ever. Heidi is his hairstylist and she was so nice to make a house call just for Parker. He did pretty well for a while because he was drinking some of my fruit smoothie but when we ran out he was not so happy and I had to hold him so Heidi could finish up.

BEFORE

I forgot to turn off the flash here and he is being a goof

DURING

AFTER

7 months!

Parker is exceptionally cute at 7 months old, but that comes to no surprise. His favorite thing to do is to flirt with all the ladies everywhere we go... nurses, cashiers, waitresses. He is a ladies man all the way. At 7 months he is really into standing, climbing, crawling super fast, eating new foods and doing guy stuff with his daddy. We had to buy a second bumper to put on his crib because he will wake up at night and try to stand up still half asleep, after one minor bump on the head we don't want to go through that again. He is also doing great putting himself to sleep after we read books at night. His newest trick is giving high fives. He LOVES going running with me and every week we go out for a family run, all three of us. I had to buy him some new sunglasses because he grew out of the little ones that strap to his head and surprisingly he leaves his sunglasses on, no attempt to take them off which is amazing. We LOVE our little chunk monster!

I taught him the itsy bitsy spider

What a Day!

Reluctantly, Parker and I left the house today for some much over-due errands. I first took my phone to the Sprint store as it was acting up and the outside cover was a bit stretched out. The guy who helped me out said that normally they would just clean it up and replace the backing but then he said not to worry about it and instead I am having a brand new phone shipped to the house free of charge! WOW! I was super excited. THEN I went to Old Navy because my sweet husband bought me a watch there and the other day it just stopped working. I only had this watch for less than a week. Problem here was I had thrown away the receipt. The lady at the counter said normally they don't allow you to return or exchange without an original receipt but just this once she was going to let it slide. SWEET, I also got a brand new watch, a hot pink one this time. THEN as I was loading Parker in the car a random stranger said, "Excuse me, I am not weird or anything, but do you want some towels and pillows?" Initial thought: yes, you are weird and is towels and pillows code for something else? But this nice gentlemen works for a company called standard textiles based out of Cincinnati, Ohio and he had a trunk full of brand new towels, down pillows, bed sheets, a queen size down comforter and beach towels that he brought up here for a meeting and couldn't take back on the flight home. He said I could have them all for free. NO WAY! I was so pumped! Moral of the story: next time I feel reluctant to get out and cross things off my to-do list, I have to keep in mind that I never know what could happen.

I'm Feeling Sentimental

How he has grown. Its goes way to fast.

6 Months! Halfway to 1 Whole Year!

The 6th month was a great month. Okay, in all honesty, it was a tough month. Parker cut two bottom teeth and is still cutting more, hence almost ALL the pictures he has something in his mouth. I was super sick for a week and then Parker got the flu too. It was way more miserable for me when my baby was sick. And he is currently going through a stage where if he wakes up at night he only wants his momma... BUT! I really am loving every day with this kid. He is so funny and is SUCH a boy, wait, let me re-phrase that, he is SUCH a GRISHAM boy. And if you know a Grisham boy then you know what I mean. And when Parker prefers me over Seth its hard not to secretly love it. I can't believe we are halfway to a year already... And actually as of today he is 7 months, but you probably expected that from me.

Snow Family

It snowed a few days ago and it was PERFECT snow for making a snow family. I was so excited because when it snowed around Thanksgiving it was sooooo freezing and the snow was more icy and we couldn't make anything. So after putting Parker to bed we went to work on our snow family. We have a video monitor in Parker's room and he just snoozed the whole time we were outside, which was wonderful. My snow-mama is on the right, next to the snow-daddy and in front is our little snow-love-child. Then we came inside, had some hot cocoa and went to bed, since there was still school the next day. In the morning I opened the curtains to show Parker our snow family and it had already melted!

Golfing with snowballs

Don't ask why I am standing like a goof in this pic

Christmas 2010

Whew! It has been a while. Lets just sum it up by saying... look to my previous post. We have been sick in this household but by now our immune systems are stronger and we are ready to fight off anything that comes our way. So my Christmas pictures are definitely late but hey, lets be serious, I am not known for my punctuality. I wish I would have taken more pictures on Christmas day, especially during our Grisham family dance off, but Christmas day was when the flu hit hard. Christmas Eve I also don't have many pictures of and I can't think of a valid excuse as to why. Either way, we had a wonderful Christmas Eve and a wonderful Christmas morning at our house. Parker was so excited about his presents, and when I say Parker, I mean Parker's dad. We set out the cookies for Santa, as usual, and we must have left out some fantastic cookies because he left us some pretty great stuff. Parker got some sippy cups and a sensory ball. Seth got LOTS of his favorite treats, a pineapple, and a REI sleeping bag. I got some of my favorite treats a wok, new workout pants and some bamboo spatulas (sounds not that exciting, but I was ecstatic). Also, please notice that Parker has different jammies on Christmas Eve and Christmas morning... we switched to special nighttime diapers after that incident.